Bonnie Ludwig is originally from West Allis, Wisconsin. She graduated cum laude in August, 2001 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a BS in chemistry. Bonnie, an IGERT student, was very interested in electronic properties of materials and her work was centered on metal-insulator-metal (MIM) devices made from thin films of gold-HSQ-gold. These MIMs devices have I-V behavior which deviates from Ohm's law; after a threshold has been reached, the resistance increases. Characterization methods include IV curves, noise measurements, and variable temperature evaluations.

In her spare time, Bonnie likes to play her cello, exercise, and do yoga. She was fortunate to study cello with Wolfgang Laufer during her time at UWM.. She also is proud of her husband, Erik, who received his Masters in trombone performance in the spring of 2003 from MSU, and her son Ben, who is a very good reader.

You can read a little about Bonnie's work and the broader scientific context in Nature 2004, 3, 286-287.

 

Bonnie is now a staff scientist at Dow Corning Corporation.

 

Octylgermane on Gold:  Synthesis, Oxidation, and Pattern Formation.  T. M. Owens, B. J. Ludwig, D. R. Fosnacht, J. M. Bartolin, N. Homann, N. J. Wells, B. G. Orr, M. M. Banaszak Holl.  Langmuir 2004, 20, 11422-11427.

Oxidation of Alkylsilane-based Monolayers on Gold.  T. M. Owens, B. J. Ludwig, K. S. Schneider, D. R. Fosnacht, B. G. Orr, and M. M. Banaszak Holl. Langmuir 2004, 20, 9636-9645.

Germylene Reactions with Quinones Shed Light on Germylene Phenone Equilibria. R. D. Sweeder, R. L. Gdula, B. J. Ludwig, M. M. Banaszak Holl, and J. W. Kampf, Organometallics 2003, 22, 3222-3229.

Investigation of Hydridosilsesquioxane-Based Silicon Oxide Deposition on Si(111)-7´7.  K.S. Schneider, T. M. Owens, K. T. Nicholson, B. J. Ludwig, J. N. Greeley, B. G. Orr,  M. M. Banaszak Holl,  Langmuir 2002, 18, 6233-6241.